Aaarrgghhh got myself in a door card dilema

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Aaarrgghhh got myself in a door card dilema

Post by Jonny52002 »

Evening All,

So I got a spare hour to work on my Rex the other day and I decided to start pulling the door card liner off. Any way long story short what I didn’t realise was that it was holding the window regulator in place and the glass and the mechanisms went all over the place catching me completely off guard. Luckily no broken glass and I got all the winder parts together, I spent about half an hour trying to put the regulator cable back together which is proving difficult on my own so I had to leave it and prop the window In place with two bits off wood see below.

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My original plan was to make a new door card from a sheet of metal from a template I’ve made from the original lining and put some sort of manual winder in place to Replace the electric one, is this even possible or is a case of replacing the whole regulator with a manual one from another car ? In the short term I think I will put the original lining back on but the winder is proving tricky to get back together.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.